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Guyanese must reject mischief makers’ race card game

Jul 31, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Today, I have noticed that a lot of politicians are beginning to root on the race card game with hopes to segregate the people to gain political support.
History perceives the two main political parties, the People’s National Congress (PNC) and the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to be supported by two major races, the East Indians and the Africans, respectively.
Ever since the development of this theoretical framework to conceptualize these two parties, there has been unnecessary conflict, segregation by the people, and hate by the people for each other.
Guyanese need to realise that this form of segregation started with the colonialists. Our colonial masters used religion and race against us Guyanese to segregate and control us, so as to prevent us from focusing on important issues, to slow down the fight for independence and to slow down the fight for freedom of our people.
I only hope, that today, Guyanese will not fall short and become victims by mischief makers, who set out to stir up trouble in Guyana by using the race card game.
This deliberate attempt to segregate the people and infiltrate hate among our people will not be tolerated, since such acts only hamper Guyana’s development and dampen its efforts to move forward.
Our society is peaceful, and people are living together, and coexisting within societies, regardless of their race, and creed. However, such progress by the Guyanese does not dismiss the few prominent mischief makers who know themselves to instigate conflict within these peaceful societies. I hope that the Guyanese population is intelligent enough to understand the motives of these people and ignore their calls for conflict, since we are well above such evil infiltrations.
It is time Guyanese reject the race card game, because we have struggled enough in the past to get where we are presently. Let us continue to work together and move Guyana forward and stop being brainwashed and influenced by mischief makers.
Elizabeth Daly

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